
cover art by Tom Lovell
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cover art by Arnold Lorne Hicks
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Paul William Pickelle, “The Murder Wheel”
William H. Stueber, “The Death Dodger”
D. Reubens-Tayne, “Phoney Ice”
Paul Ernst, “The Marrone Mob”
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Muscling In”
Henry Koslowsky, “The Cop Chopper”
Robert Morton, “Smokes” (Part 3 of 3)
Frederic O. Schultze, “Third Degree Plus”
Paul Whelton, “Safe Break”


G.T. Fleming -Roberts, “Lady Killer!“
D.L. Champion, “Yuma Appointment”
Frances Beck, “The Last, Long Ride”
Cyril Plunkett, “Second Kill”
Henry Norton, “Cadaver Wanted—Dead or Alive!“
Frances M. Deegan, “Torch Song”
Robert C. Dennis, “Crabtree’s Favorite Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Stand-in for Death”
Day Keene, “Murder on My Mind”



1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English
one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers
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cover art by Clark Hulings

cover art by Sam Peffer


May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print
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1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print



2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
[updated 9/13/25]